Stress and Fat Loss Connection
For Weight Loss, Add Sleep, Relaxation and Manage Your Stress Levels To Diet and Exercise
Weight loss is typically accomplished through changes in diet and exercise. But a new study sheds light on some other factors that can help an individual achieve success. Getting a healthy amount of sleep, avoiding stress and complying with specific elements of a weight-loss plan (such as keeping a food diary) seem to boost the odds of success, according to a new study.
Weight Loss Tip
Take the time to think about your daily schedule. Are you trying to do too much. Does your work, television viewing, or play keep you up late? Do you need help reducing your stress levels. Decide on one or two things that you can do to reduce your stress or improve your sleep, and start doing them today.
Another experience we had is that those who are in the TRA program should NOT measure their weight everyday. For some reason, those who measure themselves everyday have more challenges to lose weight. The anxiousness they subject themselves to everyday, raises their stress levels.
The process of weight loss in a biological body is not a straight line curve. It moves up and down throughout the different days of the week where we expect an average of an accumulative loss of weight at the end of each week, with our program. This is PROVIDED the TRA participant is NOT feeling stressed out throughout the weight loss journey.
We experience that those who can 'let go' and trust their weight loss coach whole heartedly and hope for the best, by following their guidelines strictly and will only take their weight measurement in front of their coach on a weekly basis, will get the BEST results. These are usually those who have a 'feel good' journey in their program and is looking forward to their weekly weight measuring meeting.
Manage Your Stress Levels
Stress is an unavoidable fact of life that can cause a number of health problems, including weight gain. And this doesn't just mean emotional eating: recent research demonstrates that stress affects your weight on an even deeper level.
Stress increases levels of a hormone called cortisol, which stimulates your appetite, particularly for carbohydrates. Have you ever noticed that you reach for cakes, chips, and starches when you get the stress munchies? That's how you gain weight. And it's the kind of weight that gets stored as deep intra-abdominal fat, which is often associated with the apple shape and increased health risks.
It is a proven fact that you can reduce your cortisol levels and your cravings for excess carbohydrates by learning the simple skills of relaxation.
Dahniel Poon 潘 保 先 & Sylvia Liang 梁 珍 美
